Coal River Hunt?
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Coal River is definitely navigable.
Spent 5 months just north of there doing a highway reconstruction.
A few miles north of the bridge there is a gravel pit on the east side of the highway, there is a good trail that takes you back to a slough area which is part of the river. pretty sure this is still in BC?
About 3 miles south of Contact Creek Lodge there is a big sweeping turn, at the south end if you look down to the east the old highway exists. Go down this road which I'm guessing will be overgrown by now.
There's a good logging road in there, about 1/2 mile into the trail there was a sign on a tree that you were entering the Yukon.
Been a few years since I was there but IIRC it was about 10-12 miles on the trail (stay left) and it takes you right to Coal River. At that time there was a fairly big dock there. Talked to some guys hunting in a jet boat there, they had set out from the bridge.
Got to know the owners of the Coal River Lodge and they said hunting was pretty good in the area.
Good moose hunting in there.
There is a pullout just south of the old highway which is exactly on the 60th parallel. We built a cairn there and a few of us important types (haha!) had our names and companies engraved into a brass plaque which is set into the cairn.
Nice country down there. Incredible amount of black bears there in the spring.
Quite a few of the roads on the east side of the highway go way back into the mountains, old logging trails.
Hope this helps.
Spent 5 months just north of there doing a highway reconstruction.
A few miles north of the bridge there is a gravel pit on the east side of the highway, there is a good trail that takes you back to a slough area which is part of the river. pretty sure this is still in BC?
About 3 miles south of Contact Creek Lodge there is a big sweeping turn, at the south end if you look down to the east the old highway exists. Go down this road which I'm guessing will be overgrown by now.
There's a good logging road in there, about 1/2 mile into the trail there was a sign on a tree that you were entering the Yukon.
Been a few years since I was there but IIRC it was about 10-12 miles on the trail (stay left) and it takes you right to Coal River. At that time there was a fairly big dock there. Talked to some guys hunting in a jet boat there, they had set out from the bridge.
Got to know the owners of the Coal River Lodge and they said hunting was pretty good in the area.
Good moose hunting in there.
There is a pullout just south of the old highway which is exactly on the 60th parallel. We built a cairn there and a few of us important types (haha!) had our names and companies engraved into a brass plaque which is set into the cairn.
Nice country down there. Incredible amount of black bears there in the spring.
Quite a few of the roads on the east side of the highway go way back into the mountains, old logging trails.
Hope this helps.
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Pickles, in know you don't think much of me, and that's fine, but I so you list Saskcatchewan but seem to know much about where I used to live. I spent quite a bit of time in the mountains and river north of the sikianni for both work and play. Might I ask if you lived up there or just spend recreational time in the area?
I mean no offence at all so please read this as an actual question with no sarcasm whatsoever.
Ted, let me know when you are at home and we can chat on the phone, I have a few contacts in that area that hunt via river boats if you're interested. I only went in by plane other than the sikianni, peace, tuchodi or Williston lake. Well, a few times by ATV or horseback, but I was the guest on those trips lol.
I mean no offence at all so please read this as an actual question with no sarcasm whatsoever.
Ted, let me know when you are at home and we can chat on the phone, I have a few contacts in that area that hunt via river boats if you're interested. I only went in by plane other than the sikianni, peace, tuchodi or Williston lake. Well, a few times by ATV or horseback, but I was the guest on those trips lol.
Thought I would bring this one back up. A friend of mine moved some equipment out of there this winter, and he wants to give it a try this Fall. Apparently, its 40 miles up the river to the Yukon border in his air boat.
I hate those noisy things, but am considering it. Always enjoy seeing some new country. Anyone here tried running it in a river boat with an outboard?
Ted
I hate those noisy things, but am considering it. Always enjoy seeing some new country. Anyone here tried running it in a river boat with an outboard?
Ted
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I was with a guide and we were hunting quite a bit further N on the Coal about 15 years ago. Hunting caribou. The outfitter had a flat bottom aluminum jon boat with a 40 HP jet outboard on the river. It was not a big river further north, sorry I can't tell you the exact location. We hit a couple sandbars with the boat, even with an experienced guide at the helm.
